t was early Monday, April 12, the beginning of National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week, set aside each year to recognize the contributions of 911 emergency dispatchers.
Clay Patterson, who became Carroll County’s new E-911 director only 49 days earlier, had given his crew of telecommunicators a sort of treat: they could dress in casual clothes for that early morning shift. And he would sit in with the dispatchers as they handled calls for what promised to be an ordinary night of complaints about loud neighbors or officers reporting routine traffic stops… READ MORE
What’s the news? Garden Valley’s first responders are getting a major boost in their wireless communications thanks to the FirstNet network expansion currently underway by AT&T*. We’ve added a new, purpose-built cell site– located between Valley and Boise Counties. This new site is giving first responders on FirstNet – America’s public safety network – access to always-on, 24-hours-a-day priority and preemption across voice and data.
Why is this important? We consider FirstNet the most important wireless network in the country because it’s serves our first responders. And unlike commercial networks, FirstNet provides dedicated mobile broadband. To ensure AT&T and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) are putting coverage and capacity where first responders need it most, the FirstNet build is guided by direct feedback from state and public safety officials…
DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office held a training demonstration Thursday morning introducing the Spillman Flex Dispatch Software from Motorola, set to improve connectivity within local emergency personnel.
Representatives from various agencies, board members, community leaders and elected officials gathered at the DeKalb County Commission Chambers for a work session and demonstration…
An Ohio woman desperate for help used a special code to get help for her mother.
911 dispatcher, Tim Teneyck, is being hailed a hero after recognizing a “pizza order” as code for a domestic violence situation. The dispatcher didn’t pick up on the seriousness at first but soon realized the caller needed urgent help.
“No, no, no you’re not understanding.”
Tiffany Urban called 911 because her mother was being abused by an ex-boyfriend. After her request for a pizza, it soon became clear to Teneyck that he may have a domestic violence situation on his hands…
Rural ambulance services in South Dakota are having an increasingly hard time recruiting volunteers and generating revenues, putting the stability of the services at risk and making it more likely that rural residents will endure longer response times in emergencies or possibly lose ambulance service altogether.
While most larger cities in South Dakota have professional ambulance services or fire departments with paid staff members, rural services rely mostly on volunteers. In recent years, those rural providers have seen fewer people willing to volunteer and those who do volunteer are older residents who are aging out of the workforce…
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
